Shortstop Marwin Gonzalez, who had a Platelet Rich Plasma injection on his right hamstring Wednesday, was out of the starting lineup for the third consecutive night with a strained right hamstring. He’s likely to return to the lineup Saturday in the third game of the four-game series against the Blue Jays. “I’m feeling better,” he […]
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Former Astros bench coach Jackie Moore, the popular former major league coach and manager, will be honored Saturday night at Dell Diamond as the first member of the Round Rock Express Hall of Fame. The Bellaire High School graduate and Nolan Ryan confidant was the Express’ manager from its inaugural 2000 season in Class AA […]
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Mike Foltynewicz’s powerful right arm is practically a sleeve of tattoos. By comparison, his left arm is a blank canvas with his left wrist devoted to his most intimate and personal piece of art – a tattoo of the word “family.” The Astros’ hard-throwing righthander was only seven years old in Harvard, Illinois, when he […]
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Astros shortstop Gregorio Petit got away with a missed sign Thursday night when he hit a dribbler to third for an RBI groundout to give the Astros a 5-4 lead in the eventual 6-5 loss over the Blue Jays. After Matt Dominguez hit a one-out double to left in the bottom of the sixth, L.J. […]
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Box score Short in the bullpen and on the bench after trading righthander Jarred Cosart and Kike Hernandez hours before they were scheduled to start Thursday night, the Astros pieced the game together well enough to turn a lead over to their most experienced relievers. Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow purposely held on to his […]
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Jarred Cosart’s teammates knew something was up as soon as they caught a glimpse of him in street clothes walking up the home dugout Thursday afternoon. The pitchers stopped stretching in right field and stared at the young righthander before Dallas Keuchel pulled away from group and walked toward his friend. “Miami?” Keuchel screamed from […]
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By George Vondracek CORPUS CHRISTI – The much-anticipated Class AA pitching debut of former No. 1 Astros draft pick Mark Appel went as well as could have been expected. The same can’t be said for his Corpus Christi teammates. The righthander wasn’t overpowering but certainly was serviceable, tossing five scoreless innings for the Hooks against […]
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Three things to watch in the Astros’ upcoming four-game series against the Toronto Blue Jays at Minute Maid Park: 1. Guess who’s back — J.A. Happ pitches against the Astros for the first time since being traded to Toronto in 2012. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, are 10-5 this season when he starts. 2. All they […]
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Astros two-time All-Star second baseman Jose Altuve, who made two of the outs in the six-run first inning, extended his hitting streak to a season-high tying 12 games with a single up the middle in the sixth inning. He and Christian Yelich, Jose Abreu, Jose Bautista and Nick Markakis are the only players in baseball […]
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